I have tried every method under the sun and trawled the forums but to no avail so as a long shot here is the problem.

I need to digitized approx 20,000 clips off 1500 tapes and would like to be able to use ITunes to catalogue them. I can get ITunes to access the MXF files either by use of QT Refs or directly by using CalibratedQMXF. I can then use the database to search and audition clips and get them back into AVID but both methods lose the tape no and timecode info.

Has anybody found an elegant way of maintaining Tape no, TC ref in 3rd party apps post capturing the material via AVID??

I have a coder onboard who can interogate the MXF's and create wrappers but we are trying to keep the process slim and simple.

Are there any geniuses out there who can help??

Thanks

Ian

Instead of iTunes - why not use something like CatDV?

http://www.squarebox.co.uk/index.html

Thanks for the swift response, I am demoing it now. The timecode is there, but the tape no seems to be gibberish, just the MXF code.

Also although it is reading the MXF file, it doesnt seem to marry up the video and audio file. Am I missing something.

Thanks

Not sure I understand it correctly but why not digitize them in Avid and do the job with your Avid tools to search and audition them?

Itunes is not a video editor (tool) so no surprise there it loses those metadata fields.